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AK Teaching

Leeds Location

Trainee Education Recruitment Consultant

£22,250 - £27,500, plus benefits, plus uncapped commission,

Full Time, Permanent

Are you a confident and career driven graduate looking for your next challenge in a well-respected education recruitment agency, demonstrating continued yearly growth?

Are you a current education recruitment consultant with no clear path of progression and in need of a new direction?

Come join a forward-thinking collective of supportive people, who put their clients and educators first and have fun whilst doing it!

Join AK Teaching:

For over 10 years our clients have benefited from our experience in educational recruitment. Our placements are of a high calibre with proven track records.

We make sure that our candidates have the ability to seamlessly join an existing team and deliver the required elements of the curriculum. We match talented educators with schools and work alongside out trusted partner schools to ensure recruitment is one less thing for them to worry about!

We are on an exciting journey of growth and we are looking to add Two Trainee Recruitment Consultants and Two Experienced Recruitment Consultant to our Leeds based office, covering West Yorkshire.

Who We Are: AK Teaching

AK Teaching is one of the largest independent teacher recruitment agencies in the North East. With our head office in Sunderland, our offices are staffed with experienced education recruitment professionals, providing a personal service to both schools and education staff. We have a vast local knowledge, selecting the most suitable candidate for every assignment. Due to growth and expansion, we have opened a West Yorkshire office, located in the city centre of Leeds.

What will you be doing?

As a Recruitment Consultant at AK Teaching, you bring schools and educators together, towards a better education experience for staff and students alike. In the Leeds office you will join a hardworking and supportive team covering the 3 main education sectors Primary, Secondary and SEND. Each member of the team will be responsible for building your own database of educators and schools across the local area. You will be supported every step of the way and we will celebrate the success you have together.

On a daily basis you will:

• Interact with clients through strong relationship building and delivery of best quality teachers and support staff
• Proactively recruit your own candidate database and match them to the right roles, ranging from temporary to permanent and everything in between
• Maintain the four AK principles
• Support and guide your candidates and clients with a first class customer service
• Meet and exceed agreed targets and objectives

The person who can do this is:

A highly resilient person, who is also open to personal growth and continual development. You will have a highly successful AK career in Leeds if you:

• Are passionate about education and helping schools during we all know is a very difficult time for them
• Have an ability to empower people and have a keen eye to match the right people with the right roles
• Find it easy talking to people on the phone but can also communicate effectively over emails etc
• Think systematically – follow procedures but also have the confidence to speak up if you have a better way to enhance performance.
• Enjoy teamwork but can excel at autonomy

What do you get in return for these skills/What We Offer:

• The opportunity to work alongside and be mentored by a very experienced and supportive leadership team
• A clear and structured career ladder, with multiple promotion opportunities in the same calendar year
• Continued internal and external training and professional development
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases with service and a birthday holiday
• From what we have seen and researched (and we have been searching) one of the very best commission structures in our industry, putting more money in your pocket than any of our competitors!
• Pension contribution
• Additional cash bonuses and prizes for performance
• Two company events a year. This year was paid weekend in Dublin and a Christmas weekend in Edinburgh.
• Paid city centre parking – saving you even more money
• Trendy new office city centre office, with 2 roof top terraces, a café and bar in the building
• Office located a 3-minute walk for the train station
• Local incentives with prizes that you actually want, not want the leadership team think you may want

If this a work culture you can not only see yourself growing in, but also leading in, then do not delay! We want to hear from you right now! Please feel free to send us your CV and we will be in touch to talk through our recruitment selection process.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Graduate

Salary: £22,250.00-£27,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Free parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Commission pay
• Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds, LS1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 31/03/2023
Reference ID: AK Trainee